Wordless Wednesday: 10 Memorable Scenes set in NYC

Happy Midweek folks! I always choose a certain theme for my Wordless Wednesday posts and since I’ll be spending a few days in New York City this weekend, I thought I pick ten clips (including one music video) from some of my fave movies set in the Big Apple. I lost count how many times I’ve visited the city, in fact I was just there last year for my sister in-law’s wedding.

In any case, for this purpose I choose scenes that highlight the city, the streets, landmarks, Hudson river, etc., and some shows the daily life of New Yorkers, so they’re not necessarily the best scenes from the film. So without further ado, here we go…

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Superman: The Movie (1978)

Working Girl (1988)

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

One Fine Day (1996)

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Serendipity (2001)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The Visitor (2007)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

So those are just 10 of my fave New York City scenes, feel free to share your own favorites!

Hi Cindy! There are so many great scenes in NYC aren’t they? People are bound to have their own faves. I actually haven’t seen 3 on your list, I guess I prefer more of the romantic side of the Big Apple 😉

One of these days I should get over my aversion of seeing Woody Allen in his own movies & watch Manhattan 😉 Oh I still need to see The Fisher King! As for BIG, well last year I was playing on top of that very *piano* at FAO Swartz 😀

For me, the opening of Manhattan, The scene where the young Noodles and his gang walk with the Brooklyn Bridge on the background just before one of the boys gets killed in Once Upon a Time in America, the final battle in Ghostbusters, and Robin Williams staring at Amanda Plummer at Grand Central Station which leads to an imaginary waltz in The Fisher King.

Great post. I grew up in New York, so I can really appreciate this post. There are also many more great scenes. 25th Hour has some great shots of the city post-911, Man on Wire has some of the towers when they were first built.

NYC maybe the best city for films, no IT IS the best city for films! I haven’t been back for years, I might go there during the holidays this year. I have a lot of favorite scenes from movies of the city, Die Hard 3, Death Wish, The French Connection, Taxi Driver, the fantasy version of NYC in You’ve Got Mail, The Bourne Ultimatum, the 1997 version of NY in Escape From New York, Wolfen, Shaft remake and much more I couldn’t remember.

It IS the best city for films, I think even better than some other big cities like London or Paris as it can be dark and sinister as well as fluffy and romantic. It just works for all kinds of storyline!

Hello Zoë!! Ahah I just want to make sure people are paying attention. Clearly you’re the only one who did 😉 No you’re not being a pain at all, I’m glad you told me as I LOVE the You’ve Got Mail Starbucks scene and the Cranberry song is lovely.

I hope one day you get to visit NYC! I think you’d love it so much you’d want to go back again and again 🙂

This makes me want to visit even more. It’s such a photogenic city and one of the biggest reasons I have to visit New York one day is to check out where so many classic movies were filmed! Well, that and to see the Yankees play!

Love this post Ruth! I love New York, I have always wanted to live there. I also love when NY is the back drop to a movie. My votes of course would go to Woody Allen’s best NY flicks Annie Hall and Manhattan and the other two I instantly think of are Saturday Night Fever and one of my faves Taxi Driver. And how could we forget Sex and the City, totally iconic. Like I said earlier have fun chica! Enjoy yourself, take a selfie with Lady Liberty and send me a twitter pic! 🙂

Hey Mel! I don’t know if I have the energy to live in NYC but yeah, it looks so dreamy in the movies!! I still need to see Manhattan. It’s funny but I prefer Woody Allen movies where he’s NOT in the movie, ahah.

I rarely take selfies so I’m a retard at it, ahah. I’m not even on Instagram! But I might ask my hubby to take a pic of me on Ellis Island, yeah I might post some on Twitter. You do the same on South Beach ok girl? 😉

Ooo, love that you included clips from two Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movies. That Captain America scene is one of my favorites, and I forget what a big deal it is that he wakes up in NYC 70 years later!

I think one of the most memorable NYC scenes in a movie for me is when Tom Cruise drives into Time Square and it’s empty. I thought it was so cool Cameron Crowe was able to get the entire place cleared on a Sunday to shoot that scene!

Nice selection Ruth! Ok, so I have to be really cheesy here and say I’d have to put at least one scene from the first Sex and the City movie in here – maybe the one between Miranda and Steve on the Brooklyn Bridge. There I said it, don’t judge me! 🙂

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